Gosh I wish had a bowl of wisdom for you. Or at least a good drink. ButI know the greatest way to help is through prayer. With that the twotimes that come to mind semi recently, where I have or had to pare downschool and/or my life was traveling and last April. For traveling Ibought a vocab book at 3 different grade levels that was a fun wordgame type thing. The kids loved it. Still do. Kept them reading, anddoing a little fill in type writing. And I bought math crosswordpuzzles from Scholastic to keep up their math facts. They read books andjournaled our vacation.

Last April I was emotional, spent, confused at the direction we wereheaded. I prayed and prayed and then stopped school all together(except 15 minutes for my phonics kid). I was ready to jump back intoschool by mid August with a clear vision of where we were headed butstill waited until after Labor Day to start. I probably sound like aslacker but I was new woman come September and I am so thankful that Idid stop. I do believe I accomplished more later because I stopped whenI did. I know now it was the season I was in (I was worried it was mebeing irresponsible) because I feel so differently this year. This gaveme time and energy to take care of myself and other 'stuff'.

Where's your outside help? Anyone there to do easy stuff for you in theafternoon so you can do the stuff in the morning hours that you feelonly you can do? Will the kids really be that behind if you do all youcan by 2 and then be done?

I'd tell you to remember to sleep, because the lack of sleep will zap yourenergy, but if you're too uncomfortable that wouldn't help at all :)Drink your water! Brain function lags and headaches ensue due to lackof hydration.

I am praying (and have been). At least if none of my ideas helped youknow I am praying.Dana